Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

On its topmost branch they built a wigwam; Bad little Indians never came near them Hunting for birds with their bows and arrows, Nor the wicked whirlwind looking for leaves.

Who acts: branches, Bad little Indians, wicked whirlwind · What happens: build, not come, hunt, look · To what, where: wigwam, topmost branch

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, Bad little Indians, wicked whirlwind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 branch	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 branch	nmod:poss
3	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 branch	amod
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wigwam	det
8	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Indians	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Indians	amod
12	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 built	conj
15	near	near	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
17	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 birds	case
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Hunting	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 bows	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bows	nmod:poss
22	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Hunting	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arrows	cc
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bows	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Nor	punct
26	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bows	nmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 whirlwind	det
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 whirlwind	amod
29	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Nor	appos
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 whirlwind	acl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 leaves	case
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 looking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	branches = branch	a wigwam	tree's topmost branch		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme on branch=Source
2	not come	past	Bad little Indians			near branches = branch	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location
3	hunt	gerund	Bad little Indians not said here			for birds; with branches's bows Nor and arrows	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme
4	look	gerund	the wicked whirlwind not said here			for leaves	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for leaf=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 61